Holonyak, Nick, 1928-
Oral history interview with Nick Holonyak, 2005 March 23.
Topics discussed include: family background, early education, his work at Bell Labs and General Electric, transistors, lasers, silicon, John Bardeen and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Nick Holonyak (1928- ) Electrical engineer. Received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1954 and has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics there since 1963. He invented the first visible LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at General Electric Company Laboratory.
Bardeen, John.
Holonyak, Nick, 1928-
Bell Telephone Laboratories
General Electric Company.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lasers.
Physics -- Industrial applications.
Research, Industrial
Science and industry
Silicon.
Transistors.
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Razzaghe Ashrafi, Babak, 1964- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA